CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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(By Telegraph-

No Strike Plans for an immediate strike for a six-hour day at mechunised collieries in the north, reports a Syduey message, were rejectcd at a eonf ereuee of deicgates to the Northern Mincrs1 Lodge. No Beer A stay-ia strike of 82 employees oi Castlemaine Perkins, Ltd.'s, Milton brewery resulted in most Brisbane hotels running out of draught beer, and to-day is expected to see the city entirely without beer. ' * • No Tax Reduction The Westorn Australian Promier's, Mr. Wilcocks's, Budget does not provide for any variation in taxation, and introduced no drastic change in Government policy. A de'ficit of £128,855 is estimated. Monument to Marconi . Signor Mussolini has ordered a monument to be built at Rome. Ho has also ordered ihe establishinert of a fund for seholarships for boys sludying radio to help needy radio-tele-graplnsts, ' Political Arsenal Police, searchiny Ihe Paris lieadquurfers oi" a seerel urganrsalioii called Ihe Gagoulards (Hoodod Men). found a targe uuinber of machiuo-guns, harnl gronades and other muuitions. The Miuisier of tlie lutei'ior s%'s that thc Gagoulards are attached to the Itight parties and have been uuder the surveillance of'secret policc for some time. Four arrests were made, and more aro likely. Spaniards Desert The crew of 66, objecting to the new commander, dcserted irom the Spanish destroyer Jose Luis Diez, which was crippled in an air-raid and put in at Falmouth. The crew was detained under instructions from the British Home Office and takou to Exeter prison as aliens landing without a permit. Repatriation is being arrungcd for them. Minister Dismissed A Leningrad message reports that, the Central Executive dismissed the Minister of Justice, M. Krylouko. s»nd substituted the Pcople's Commissar, M. Antonovov Seyenko. The London Daily Tclcgraph points out. that M. Seyenko's position is paradoxical inasmue.h as he rnust bring the Trotskyists to justice dcspite the fact that his entire cnrecr has been liased upou tlie fact that he was TrolskyV ciiief-uf-staff in tlie Pelrograd revolution of 1817. His recent activities at Barcelona in counteracting Trotskyism secured his present poat.